linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the lost-spurious-irq tree with the tip tree

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Message-ID: <20101005091223.GA16005@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 5 Oct 2010 11:12:23 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the lost-spurious-irq tree with the
 tip tree

* Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
> 
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 09:01:23 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> > Fortunately there's a really simple solution: wait for an explicit 
> > reply from a maintainer before adding a new-feature tree. (Solicite 
> > again via a To: email if the Cc: went unanswered by the 
> > maintainers.)
> 
> Sure we can try that.

Thanks.

> > Could you please start using that method for all subsystems i 
> > co-maintain?
> 
> So, to be clear, from the MAINTAINERS file that would be LOCKDEP AND 
> LOCKSTAT, PERFORMANCE EVENTS SUBSYSTEM, SCHEDULER, TRACING, and X86 
> ARCHITECTURE. [...]

Yep - those are the main ones.

( You might want to apply the process generally as well - it's rather 
  rare that trees parallel to maintainer trees get added to linux-next 
  and IMO it pays to make sure the maintainers are actively fine with 
  such additions.

  A Cc: to a mail with no patch content is easy to miss and it's useful
  to solicit a 'yeah, sure it's fine' mail from a maintainer - just like 
  we solicit Acked-by's from maintainers for much smaller matters than 
  full trees (individual patches).

  This would further ensure that linux-next is indeed a stable
  approximation of the 'next Linux' as intended by maintainers.
  To me this looks like a pretty obvious and useful thing to do. )

Thanks,

	Ingo
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